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Alexandre Felten

Institute: FUNDP, Namur

Role in nano²hybrids project: production and characterization of plasma treated and metal decorated CNT

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Hello !

My name is Alexandre Felten and I’m 26.
I just got my PhD thesis on the 4th of May 2007. Since this date, I’m working on the Nano2hybrids project.
Before that I graduated as a physicist in 2002 and began my PhD thesis in the LISE laboratory in Namur where I worked on the plasma functionalization and metal decoration of carbon nanotubes. Actually the results obtained where very encouraging and were the premises for this Nano2hybrids project.
During this 4 and half year I performed experimental work and used different techniques such as photoelectron spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, scanning transmission x-ray microscopy, plasma treatments,… (If you are interested you can have a look on the pdf file of my thesis.) I also travel quite a lot to do experiments in big facilities called synchrotron. I spend some times at the Advanced Light Source (Berkeley, California) and at Hasylab (Hamburg, Germany).

I hope you will enjoy to watch the videos and read the news on this website !

Alexandre

Key Publications:
-A. Felten, C. Bittencourt, J.-J. Pireaux, M. Reichelt, J. Mayer, D. Hernandez-Cruz, and A. P. Hitchcock, Individual multiwall carbon nanotube spectroscopy by scanning transmission x-ray microscopy: structural and electronic properties, Nano Letters (Web Release Date: 11-Jul-2007).
-A. Felten, C. Bittencourt, J.-F. Colomer, G. Van Tendeloo, and J.-J. Pireaux, Nucleation of metal clusters on plasma treated multi wall carbon nanotubes, Carbon 45 (2007) 110.
-A. Felten, H. Hody, C. Bittencourt, J.-J. Pireaux, D. Hernandez-Cruz, and A. P. Hitchcock, STXM of isolated MWCNTs, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89 (2006) 093123.
-A. Felten, C. Bittencourt, and J.-J. Pireaux, Gold clusters on oxygen functionalized CNTs: XPS and TEM studies, Nanotechnology 17 (2006) 1954.
-A. Felten, C. Bittencourt, J.-J. Pireaux, G. Van Lier, and J.-C. Charlier, RF plasma functionalization of CNTs surface by O2, NH3 and CF4 treatments, J. Appl. Phys. 98 (2005) 074308.

you can see a more complete list in the last pdf file of my thesis

Latest Posts

Alexandre Felten	Career steps for a young scientist
	toggle size Alex discusses his next career steps and what it's like being a year or two into a research career after his PhD. Industry... or academia? show / hide video
6.29pm, Tuesday 26th May 2009 | |
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Alexandre Felten	Synchrotron in the world
	Hello ! I am now working for 10 days in a new synchrotron. It is called Bessy II and is located in Berlin, Germany. We are doing some high resolution photoemission spectroscopy on metal nanoparticles/carbon nanotubes material. I attach a picture of all the synchrotron in the world. Which one you would prefer to go ? The one in Siberia or in Brazil ? Or maybe the one in Australia If you want more information on synchrotron you can look on these websites : http://www.lightsource.ca/education/poster.php http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/sync... see full text
8.44am, Monday 23rd Jun 2008 | |
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Alexandre Felten	metal evaporation day 5
	toggle size Already Friday ! We will finish to repair the water cooling with Vahit and then in the afternoon i will finally evaporate metal on the carbon nanotubes ! show / hide video
12.03am, Friday 30th May 2008 | 2 comments | |
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Alexandre Felten	metal evaporation day 4
	toggle size On thursday the pressure is low enough and we can begin to degas the evaporation cell. We also make a plasma treatment on the nanotubes. At the end of the day we have some problems with the water cooling ! show / hide video
10.58am, Thursday 29th May 2008 | |
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Alexandre Felten	metal evaporation day 3
	toggle size Wednesday is an easy day. Basically, we have to stop the heating and wait the chamber to cools down. show / hide video
8.18am, Wednesday 28th May 2008 | 1 comment | |
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